When I import 5D III cinemadng's into Premiere 7.1, the footage comes in with a weird pink overlay. It's not just a tint shift, but some sort of color distortion. After Effects and Photoshop both read the file just fine via Camera Raw. Is anyone else having this issue or know any solution?

Yes they are. I've used other conversion programs (Raw2DNG and Son of Batch) that create only normal DNGs. Those cannot be imported into Premiere. The CinemaDNGs I have are created from RareVision's RAWMagic, and they are importing and playing smoothly in Premiere, just with the pink overlay. I've imported Black Magic DNGs and they work fine.

DaVinci Resolve reads them fine, so they can be read by a NLE, and Camera RAW reads them correctly. I just wish that instead of changing the conversion software, Adobe had created their importer correctly since it seems it can be done. It's unfortunate that Adobe has been so behind DaVinci Resolve in this area.

Yes, same issue for me using raw footage from the Canon 5d Mk III converted to Cinema DNG using RAWMagic: heavy pink tinting. I'm pretty impressed that I can play the Cinema DNG files smoothly and easily perform normal edits, but the pink overlay makes it unusable. Might be okay for an offline editing workflow using Resolve, although the pink overlay makes it difficult to see what you're working with. I'd be curious to know why Premiere isn't interpreting the colour information in the RAWMagic Cinema DNG files correctly, and whether or not the same issue occurs with CinemaDNG files from other cameras. Early days yet and the smooth playback is a good start.

I would hate to have to go through another program though. I was really excited about keeping everything contained within Adobe and giving Speedgrade a shot (now that the workflow is finally usable), but you're right, the pink is totally unusable. I just tried correcting it in Speedgrade. Impossible. It's just not reading it right. Sad that I'm considering switching altogether if Resolve can improve their editing features. I'm shooting mostly 5D III RAW at this point and Adobe can't find a way to support it when other companies can. Really hope this gets fixed soon, but seeing how long we've already waited for CinemaDNG support.......

Cinema DNG is also not working correctly for me. Similiar to what others have described, I'm seeing a strong pink cast on all clips. They work fine when used with davinci resolve. What is the most effective way to report this to Adobe in the hopes of a possible patch?

As the thread implies the problem is with the 5D Mark III and not with the BMC. The problem is with Cinema DNG files that were converted from Magic Lantern RAW. Resolve suffered from a similar problem early on that was described as 'pink fringing' in the highlights. This problem was addressed with the release of resolve 10.

The problem seems to be with how the DNG is interpreted in Premiere, may not be isolated to the RAW files that are converted to Cinema DNG as you explained. Take a look at this article under the bad news. It may be really helpful in making this DNG support usable. Because as stated in the article, we are not beta testers, we are paying customers and as such we reasonably expect a lot more.

To be very clear, for this 7.1 release, we are only supporting CinemaDNG media from the Blackmagic Camera. No other format is being supported at this time. The pink overlay problem with DNG derived from Canon RAW media is a known issue.

We are currently in discussions of how to expand our CinemaDNG support going forward, and user input is a vital factor. Nonetheless, Premiere support for the CinemaDNG format is different from the support in other Adobe applications. For more on this, see the section "Enhanced BlackMagic Cinema Camera support" at this link:

Thank you for the updated information, although I do wish that Adobe had made it clear at the time of the update announcement that CinemaDNG support would only be for the BMCC. I've heard other cameras, such as the KineRAW which shoots CinemaDNG, are not handled correctly either. Still, thank you for pushing this initiative forward, and I'm hoping that Adobe can keep up with the chaning industry and provide full support for all forms of Cinema DNG like Davinci Resolve has found a way to do.

Hi, I'm another magic lantern user making DNG from my 5D3, and I got myself premiere and speedgrade because of DNG support... and I'm kind of disapointed now that this support is only for 1 camera... it's weird, but we'll be patient hoping that you support 5D3 DNG files one day...

Meanwhile, I'll have to switch to Davinci resolve 10 which can do editing now.

Magic lantern users are a huge community, so it wouldn't be a smart move not to support us, For many of us working with premiere and switching to speedgrade was gonna be a perfect raw workflow.

just to push this Thread and make it more vital.. It's really a pitty, that Adobe as Inventor of a "universal" picture-format can't cope with its own idea.

Suggestions:(A) Use the (cinema)DNG-Attributes as they're written into the tif(dng) header.(B) Give a Interface/Translator for color-matrices.

As its working fairly good in Speedgrade (but sadly not to link it from there to premiere), i state the dng-Importer in Premiere as Beta-Codeproof working merely with BMCC-Files. I dont want to squeeze/recalculate the magiclantern-raws to bmcc-like data - cdng-import cant deliver, what was promised with the idea of dng - by now

Are you folks aware that the Rawmagic CDNG files work flawlessly in AE and photoshop ACR and look completely correct? They do not however open correctly in PPro or SG. Is this because of RGB to YUV conversion? AE being 100% RGB.

Every Import via ACR is read correctly because of translation to rgb-data. Premiere only works accordingly with Blackmagic-data-structure (12bit log with delinearizationcurve), Speedgrade is able to convert to xyz with according color/translation-matrix.

I'm sure it would be easy for them to sumon ACR stuff in premiere just like with after effects. They must have some reasons not to do it... Maybe it's Canon who is paying them to hold on full CDNG support so that life isn't too easy for us magic lantern users! :O

Adobe is suppose to have a fix for Convergent Design's Odyssey 7's version of Cinema DNG in the next release. Hopefully, Adobe will process DNG's files the same in all applications with the next upgrade.

be patient, it will be better but, acr is NOT the way to go. its much too slow. how do you want to edit, if you have to wait for godot? a quite good idea would be a video-effect with some basic highlight- and shadow recovery.

Another half a year has gone by, and the problem is still unresolved. Given the ratio of 5D users versus BM users out there, and the ever ongoing migration to Raw, it is starting to get silly that this issue is still unresolved by Adobe. Do I really have to switch to Da Vinci Resolve? I don't want to, but Adobe seem hell bent on forcing me to. Surely this cannot be such a huge problem to fix when, again, it's been working just fine in Resolve since like forever.